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The following is from another list -- a copyeditors list -- where the
editor is asking if the grammar can be improved. I am wondering if the
sentence make any sense at all.
Comments?
>If the universe were finite and smaller than the distance to the "surface
>of last scattering"
(the place in deep space from whence comes the cosmic
>microwaves and that constitutes the edge of the visible universe),
then
>multiple images should show up in the microwave background.
>
>Please focus on the parenthetical comment. I've rewritten it to say: "the
>place in deep space where the cosmic microwaves originate and that
>constitutes the edge of the visible universe," but the two clauses joined
>by "and" are not parallel.
Jim
Jim Green
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